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OPENING THIS WEEK THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU On the brink of winning a seat in the U.S. Senate, ambitiouspolitician David Norris (Matt Damon) meets beautiful contemporary ballet dancer Elise Sellas (Emily Blunt), a woman like none he's...

...seeker endures. It is the dreaded ''black dog'' of politics lurking just outside the campaign door of every ambitiouspolitician. Bill Shipp more Shipp columns www.billshipp.com Rejection howls not only on election night when the polls...

...far and wide, offered repeatedly for the state legislature and once for Congress. Herndon called him "the most ambitiouspolitician I ever saw."In law and politics, he perceived instinctively the latent powers of public speech. Contrary to...

...unimpeachable integrity, very kind, very calm." And, alas, he got it. She was an accidental rather than ambitiouspolitician. Instead of the crackling wise-guy dialogue of "The West Wing" with its flawed staffers, its docudramas...